Thread by @ShirtlockH, - THREAD -How does the largest international football shirt #fake ring operate?_________________

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How does the largest international football shirt #fake ring operate?
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It all starts with the Australian owner (Luke) of @amsclothing1 and a second company called "Palm Tree". Probably for his company he needed a supplier in mainland China...

So he does what everyone would do these days to find counterfeit products: Looking on @AlibabaGroup!
He quickly finds the company #YMSports from Guangzhou!

Source:
https://ymsportswear.m.en.alibaba.com/productgrouplist-816127555/Jersey.html?spm=a2700.icbuShop.88.44.3d645ef8B0KmhS">https://ymsportswear.m.en.alibaba.com/productgr...

On their homepage, #YMSports is happy to publicly brag how well they are faking products of @Diadoraofficial or ONU:
https://www.ymsportswear.com/category/soccer-uniforms/

The">https://www.ymsportswear.com/category/... price of one shirt, at this point, is 6-12$ for Luke, who gets them shipped to Australia.

This is not an assumption, by the way. Luke admitted to me in 2015 already, that @amsclothing1 isn& #39;t very profitable and be thus had to find "other revenues to supplement this" by selling fakes in large numbers.

Now, every product piracy ring needs a market, of course! So Luke puts them on @eBayAU, who happily ignore that the globally largest football shirt fake distributor is using them.
He first his first roughly 2000 shirts as "football_shirt_village"
https://www.ebay.de/usr/football_shirt_village">https://www.ebay.de/usr/footb...

He then closed that account for unknown reasons (it wasn& #39;t @eBayAU, they preferred ignoring the illegal activities). So he is now trading as "claudioitaliano", selling still exclusively fakes of all brands ( @adidassoccer even).
https://www.ebay.com/usr/claudioitaliano">https://www.ebay.com/usr/claud...

Just in case that @ebayAU suddenly decides to do something against illegal activities on their platforms, he also prepared a flashy homepage called "Global Jerseys", registered on a friend& #39;s name 12 minutes drive from his own address.
https://global-jerseys.com/ ">https://global-jerseys.com/">...

What& #39;s bad for him is that collectors around the world by now connect Australia with fakes and would never buy from @ebayAU.
So he engages resellers around the world! There& #39;s "Owen" in Japan, who sold another 4000 shirts:
https://www.ebay.com/str/owen102011 ">https://www.ebay.com/str/owen1...

Then there& #39;s #retrosportief aka Jesse Linden clothing from the Eindhoven area in the Netherlands, who& #39;s serving the European market mostly.

Then there& #39;s Fuad Hasanov from Baku, Azerbaijan, who is using several channels to sell his fakes, namely Facebook and the eBay accounts of land_of_jerseys and...

top.r-86 and whose shirts (such as the Hearts of Oak shirt) often look suspiciously "similar" to Luke& #39;s shop:

And then there& #39;s MarkusMur from Murcia, Spain, who first sold 11,000 shirts via @eBayESP, before moving his fake shop to Todo colleccion to reach the Spanish market better.

Finally, there is "Emma" from the UK, who is selling his counterfeit products via @eBay UK: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/emma9486
(Currently">https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/emma9... no listings, but check the rated products sold!)

Attempts to recruit befriended collectors of mine in Germany, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico failed, but I& #39;m sure he will find someone to spread his fakes further soon enough!
@ebay, @ebayAU aren& #39;t the only ones who could stop this, though!

There are the Australian authorities:
@MelbournePolice could crack down the fake shop registered in their city. @VictoriaPolice might support. The Australian Police even has a counterfeit special unit, which never replied to me and doesn& #39;t seem to care...

Then, of course, the FAs and teams might sue him:
@AffaAzerbaijan: Someone in Baku is collaborating with someone stealing your IP (logo)!
Please, whoever has a list of FA Twitter handles, link them in! Let them know!

And finally, @adidassoccer, @umbro, @nikefootball, @admiral1914, @lottosport, @pumafootball, @JomaSport, @uhlsportDE, @LEGEA_official, @jakosport, @peaksportsUSA, @KappaFrance: This man is faking your products every single day - finally act!

If you made it so far - PLEASE share this and let the world know about Luke, @amsclothing1 and how @eBayAU is turning a blind eye on the biggest global international football shirt piracy ring these days. Thanks!

"Claudioitaliano" (=Luke) is also on Facebook - he& #39;s just doing national teams there, but has the full catalogue of all national team shirts Luke ever faked and sold to compare with when you shop!

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